{"id":3210,"date":"2021-01-28T13:11:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T20:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=3210"},"modified":"2021-01-28T13:11:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T20:11:34","slug":"john-stevens-class-on-uncials-and-roman-capitals-is-a-welcome-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/28\/john-stevens-class-on-uncials-and-roman-capitals-is-a-welcome-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"John Stevens&#8217; class on uncials and Roman capitals is a welcome challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Judging from the disappointed post of fellow calligraphers worldwide, I was awfully lucky to make it into this 5-week class on Uncials and Roman capitals taught by John Stevens. This is week 2. Here are the 2 pages of homework I was willing to share with the class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I could easily work on this class full time! I&#8217;m quite sure that some of my fellow students have been doing so, and even working overtime. I&#8217;ve been drawn into spending much more time on it than I realized. So now I&#8217;m scrambling to get to all of the work piling up in my studio. Today and tomorrow will see me caught up (she says, optimistically).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow aligncenter\" data-effect=\"slide\"><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_container swiper-container\"><ul class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_swiper-wrapper swiper-wrapper\"><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"798\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-3211\" data-id=\"3211\" src=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210123-monoline-capitals-text-block-798x1024.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210123-monoline-capitals-text-block-798x1024.jpg 798w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210123-monoline-capitals-text-block-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210123-monoline-capitals-text-block-768x985.jpg 768w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210123-monoline-capitals-text-block-1198x1536.jpg 1198w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210123-monoline-capitals-text-block.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_caption gallery-caption\">Monoline capitals 1\/4&#8243; high, lettered with 03mm mechanical pencil on Strathmore Drawing 300.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"547\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-3212\" data-id=\"3212\" src=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210128-uncial-italic-layout-1024x547.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210128-uncial-italic-layout-1024x547.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210128-uncial-italic-layout-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210128-uncial-italic-layout-768x410.jpg 768w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210128-uncial-italic-layout.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_caption gallery-caption\">A layout showing 3 sizes of an italicized variation of uncials. Brause &#038; Hiro Tape nib in sizes 3mm, 2mm, and 1mm on a scrap of Fabriano Ingres. I&#8217;m still working out the details of  this variation.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-prev swiper-button-prev swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"><\/a><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-next swiper-button-next swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Pause Slideshow\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-pause\" role=\"button\"><\/a><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_pagination swiper-pagination swiper-pagination-white\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judging from the disappointed post of fellow calligraphers worldwide, I was awfully lucky to make it into this 5-week class on Uncials and Roman capitals taught by John Stevens. This is week 2. Here are the 2 pages of homework I was willing to share with the class. I could easily work on this class &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/28\/john-stevens-class-on-uncials-and-roman-capitals-is-a-welcome-challenge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John Stevens&#8217; class on uncials and Roman capitals is a welcome challenge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[204],"tags":[137,102,186],"class_list":["post-3210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning","tag-john-stevens","tag-roman-capitals","tag-uncial"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-PM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}